But for a disabled Veteran to get disability he/she must jump multiple hoops and wait and wait and wait.
Shame
When you roll off your 99 weeks of Unemplooyment, you roll right onto Disability.
And after two years of sitting on your a$$, you probably are disabled!
The Obama administration has been corraling those who run out of unemployment into SSDI. I used to be very difficult to get the benefits. Now, all they have to do is claim depression or some phony made up illness.
That is why so many unemployed aren’t screaming about jobs.
It is cyclical. People get on disability for nothing and then one day the government demands that everyone prove they are disabled.
I knew a guy that was on it for drug addiction. They shook him out of the tree immediately when the Republicans took over Congress in the 90’s.
A woman I knew was on it for Epilepsy. Epilepsy can sometimes be hard to prove or refute. She was telling everyone that the Republicans were killing her by taking away her government check.
Since Bill Clinton proclaimed to ‘change welfare as we know it’, this is what we’re left.
Disability = Scam.
Just to be fair. there are those on disability that comes from Private ins policies Like from mutual of O or AFLAC etc.Not all you meet are sucking the govt.
Some of the problem is that we have an aging population increasingly unable to do physical labor and not enough sedentary labor to keep them all employed.
I have a member of my family that became truly disabled last year. Big time cancer. Took him many months and a jump through a lot of hoops to become qualified. I am surprised that this benefit is seen as easy to come by. It certainly wasn’t for him.